Product Description

Photographs illustrate the author's account of his voyage from Peru to Tahiti on a balsa raft to test a theory concerning the origins of the Polynesian race.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #119436 in Books
• Published on: 1995-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 256 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent book of real life adventure & discovery
Heyerdahl epitomises the human search for knowledge and man's driving curiosity to seek out the truth. His voyaga is inspiring. This book is great.. I read it as a child and I'm getting this book for my son..

A spellbinding chronicle of amazing human achievement.
Few, if any, authors can claim the same realism and drive that Heyerdahl accomplishes in Kon-Tiki. It is a story of a journey of unparalleled magnitude and importance. Eight men in a balsa log raft against 4,000 miles of the blue unknown. Simply put, a spellbinding chronicle of amazing human acheivement, the like of which will not soon be equaled.

A spellbinding chronicle of amazing human achievement.
Few, if any, authors can claim the same realism and drive that Heyerdahl accomplishes in Kon-Tiki. It is a story of a journey of unparalleled magnitude and importance. Six men in a balsa log raft against 4,000 miles of the blue unknown. Simply put, a spellbinding chronicle of amazing human acheivement, the like of which will not soon be equaled.